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Leiten Patent No. 90,710, dated .rune 1 1869, @treated Ma@ 20, 1869.

IMPROVE!) FERRU'LE FOR SHOE-STRINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the salma.l

To all-whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. WHITE, of the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk, and State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Ferrules, or Metal Binding for the Ends of Shoe-Strings, and other Laces; and I do hereby declare that the `following isY a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawing, making part of this specification.

- The object of this invention is to have a metal binding for the ends of shoe and other laces, which will hold firmly upon the end of the lace, and does not slip from it in using it, as is frequently the case with those heretofore known and used.

In producing this metal binding, the same is cut out from flat sheet-metal, of a form as represented in Fig-I nre 1.

Figure 2 represents a face view of the binding, after A closing has `been performed.

Figure 5 represents a vertical section of the same, as shown in iig. 4. l

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the binding, after completed and ready for use. Y Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willl proceed to describe its construction in detail.

. The metal blank, of which the binding is made, is constructed with a central lip, a, and two lips, b and c, on each side, of which the lips b b are narrow, and are immediately u-nder the lip a.

Thedotted lines, y a: and x y, indicate the lines to vwhich these lips are turned or bent, and the distance from n: to a: is made corresponding with the lace for which it is made or used.

After this blank is obtained, the end of the lace is laid centrally upon it, and so that the end of it projects a little beyond the lips b b, and the lips b b are tumed, or folded to lie upon the lace, as shown clearly in iig. 2.

Hereafter, I vfold the lip a with the projecting end of the lace upon the lips b l1, as shown in iig. 3, and finally, I fold in the lips c c, which close upon the end of the lip a, as shown in figs. 4 and After these lips have been closed upon the lace, and the binding been pressed, andwell attened down, the whole of it is rolled up, or swaged, in cylindrical,

or tubular form, as shown in fig. 6, and is then ready for use.

The cutting .of the blank can readily be performed in the usualcutting-press, but particular mechanism is required to fold these lips, similar to those employed in folding envelopes, and the rolling off, or forming it in tubular shape, is readily produced in a rapid manner by swaging the same between proper dies.

From the foregoing, it will be seen the binding herein shown encloses thel end of the lace with rmness, is not liable to slip from it, and .is more stiff and durable than those heretofore known and used.

Having fully described my invention,

What I claim'therein, and desire to secure by Letters 

